Our mainstream information landslide is infested with wild expectations of excess. We are constantly told to have all of our dreams come true. How about becoming moderately successful? Why don’t we start with three dreams and see how that goes? We are all told to give 110%. How about 70%? Our narrow perception of succeeding consistently points to the top three billionaires, even though the seven hundredth richest person in the country is quite comfortable. The airwaves and bookstores are c...

Lake Michigan, winding creeks, sprawling swamps, and one of the world’s great rivers--Illinois’s variety of aquatic habitats makes the Prairie State home to a diverse array of fishes. The first book of its kind in over forty years, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a combination of nature guide and natural history. It provides readers with an authoritative resource based on the extensive biological data collected by scientists since the mid-1850s. Each of the entries on Illinois’s 21...

This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order to create a comprehensive picture of the guitar from its early appearances in Jacobean records, through its heyday at the Restoration court in Whitehall, to its decline in the first decades of th...

The Drowning Man is the story of Frank, unwilling resident of "another city, on another map". Following the discovery of his proscribed relationship with a man, he was forced to denounce his partner and move to the city to work for the totalitarian Party. Now, after several years, his ex has reappeared, and with him a spiralling set of circumstances that will draw Frank and the Party into an apocalyptic reckoning.As if Brazil had been directed by Wong Kar-Wai, or ...

Holden Hollister had everything a man could dream for, a beautiful home, a loving family, and a career as a best-selling author, but how much of it really belongs to him?After leaving the scene of a fatal car crash in 1992, which has Holden's best friend and writing partner serving a life sentence for manslaughter, he tries to forget his past and enjoy life to its fullest. Despite needing massive doses of pain to make it through each day only to be visited by his past in his dreams,...

If not for the death of his wife and his career as a Hollywood screenwriter riding on the line, Steven Keller never would have returned to his childhood home, located far from civilization in the small town of Eldora. Accompanied by his rebellious teen aged daughter, he revisits the place of his birth while simultaneously attempting to salvage their future, oblivious to the forces working against them.Though the house may be vacant, they are not alone.On the same property, se...

To former homicide detective John Stevens, Ratcliff seemed like the perfect place to raise his teen-aged son, but looks can be deceiving. He soon finds that the sleepy rural town harbors dark secrets and an evil lurks under the surface that threatens the lives of its residents. In order to save them, he must once again delve into the terrifying mindset of a serial killer.With two people confirmed dead, John Stevens must now work together with some unlikely allies if the town is to ...

Ever since GA Ratcliff High School closed in the eighties amidst the George Ross Scandal, local residents have been drawn back to the place, but not everyone who visits gets to leave. Urban explorers continue to roam its halls, some for sport while others seek the truth. Amateur ghost-hunters and television personalities go in looking for answers, but what they find lurking within is deadlier than any of them could have imagined.

Ferns gives the reader an introduction to the reasons for the variety of ferns in the British Isles, as well as the history of their development within this landscape and their use by man. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comFerns, horsetails and clubmosses, or to use their technical term the Pteridophyta, are a fascinating area of the British flora that ranged from the prehistoric-looking horsetails to the delicate beauty of the Aspleniaceae family (otherwise known as t...

As a crime scene photographer for the Toronto Police, Elizabeth Reid has seen her share of tragedy. After losing her mother in a fire as a child, she was gifted with the ability to see things that other's couldn't, including the spirit of a mysterious woman who appears in her dreams, often forewarning her of impending death.After receiving a letter from her grandmother, and accompanied by her best friend and Crime Scene Specialist, Alex Buchanan, "Lizzie" is returning home to Woods ...

While searching for a new apartment, Dr. Felix Hoffmann finds a beautiful condo offered at a tremendous bargain. But then he learns the property belongs to one of his geriatric patients, a man he rescued from the brink of death just the day before—and who never listed his condo for sale.Together with his vivacious girlfriend, Celine, Felix unearths a conspiracy to fleece elderly patients, then hasten their deaths. Could one of his trusted hospital coworkers be behind the wicked sch...

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cin...